Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life

Essays on small art films and big-budget blockbusters, including Antonia''s Line, American Beauty, Schindler''s List, and The Passion of the Christ, that view films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.

For Alan Stone, a one-time Freudian analyst and former president of the American Psychiatric Society, movies are the great modern, democratic medium for exploring our individu...